Pongratz - Spaatz Aerospace: Questions With Logical
Solutions
Kite Accurate Answer:- Invented by the Chinese, first time man flew,
used for surveillance.
Lighter-than-air Accurate Answer:- a substance which is less dense
than air.
Gunpowder Accurate Answer:- invented by the Chinese, used to create
the first rockets.
Hot Air Balloon Accurate Answer:- an aircraft which uses heated
lighter-than-air gasses to produce lift.
Hydrogen Gas Accurate Answer:- discovered by Cavendish, lighter-
than-air, flammable, used in hot air balloons.
Helium Gas Accurate Answer:- lighter-than-air gas which replaced
hydrogen in hot air balloons.
Aerial Observations Accurate Answer:- used to see over physical
barriers, highly effective militarily.
Balloon Signal Service Accurate Answer:- short lived part of the Union
Army, used for observation.
Aeronaut Accurate Answer:- balloon pilot.
Dirigible Accurate Answer:- balloon which can be propelled and
steered.
Zeppelin Accurate Answer:- rigid dirigible.
Rocket definition Accurate Answer:- uses an explosion to achieve initial
lift, cannot sustain flight.
,Glider Accurate Answer:- aircraft which is lifted into the air and flies
with no internal power.
Lift Accurate Answer:- the force which opposed gravity, generated by
the aircraft's wings.
Drag Accurate Answer:- the force that opposes thrust, mechanical force
against motion.
Thrust Accurate Answer:- the force that opposes drag, in an aircraft
thrust comes from the engine.
Helicopter Accurate Answer:- an aircraft which uses a spinning rotor to
achieve lift.
Wind Tunnel Accurate Answer:- a chamber which simulates wind for
experimentation.
Airplane Accurate Answer:- a heavier than air craft which can sustain
flight and is controlled by a pilot.
Powered Flight Accurate Answer:- flight achieved from an onboard
power plant, usually an engine.
Airports Accurate Answer:- where aircraft operations are conducted.
Uncontrolled airports Accurate Answer:- airports with no control
tower.
Runways Accurate Answer:- where aircraft take off and land.
Runway designations Accurate Answer:- the first two numbers of the
compass heading in three digits.
Threshold Accurate Answer:- beginning of the runway.
Taxiways Accurate Answer:- where aircraft move from the ramp to
runway.
,Ramps Accurate Answer:- aircraft parking lots.
Hangars Accurate Answer:- aircraft garages, often where maintenance
occurs.
Control tower Accurate Answer:- controls airport traffic and provides
ATIS.
Automated Terminal Information System (ATIS) Accurate Answer:-
weather and airport information.
Fixed-Base Operation (FBO) Accurate Answer:- the offices which
provide services to the airport such as flight instruction, fuel, maintenance,
and sales.
Passenger terminal Accurate Answer:- where passengers wait in larger
airports to board their planes.
Flight Service Station (FSS) Accurate Answer:- provides weather
information and flight plans.
Encroachment Accurate Answer:- communities moving close to the
airport.
Noise abatement procedures Accurate Answer:- methods to avoid loud
noises.
Atmosphere Accurate Answer:- the region where people can live
without lift support.
Aerospace Accurate Answer:- a term used to refer to the atmosphere
and space.
Atmospheric elements Accurate Answer:- 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen,
1% other variable and permanent gases.
Four ways to classify atmospheric regions Accurate Answer:-
temperature, physicochemical, molecular, and dynamic and kinetic processes.
, Troposphere Accurate Answer:- where people live, up to 10 miles of
altitude on average does have variable height based on region, weather is
produced here, temperature decreases with an increase in altitude.
Tropopause contains the jet streams.
Stratosphere Accurate Answer:- temperature increases with an
increase in altitude, 10-30 miles.
Mesosphere Accurate Answer:- initially temperature increases with
altitude, then it decreases, 30-50 mi.
Thermosphere Accurate Answer:- 50 to 300 miles, temperature
increases again based on solar activity.
Ozonosphere Accurate Answer:- 10 to 30 miles, solar radiation causes
oxygen molecules to pick up a third atom (ozone).
Ionosphere (temperature distribution of atmosphere) Accurate Answer:-
25 to 250 miles, solar radiation causes a loss or gain of an electron, certain
radio waves are reflected.
Neutrosphere Accurate Answer:- below the ionosphere to the surface,
not as much ionization.
Chemosphere Accurate Answer:- vaguely defined, overlaps ionosphere
and ozonosphere, number of photochemical (radiant energy and chemical)
reactions occur.
Heterosphere Accurate Answer:- the region where due to gravity
different molecules are held closer or further from Earth based on their mass,
creates a separation of molecules of different kinds.
Homosphere Accurate Answer:- where there is a relatively
proportional distribution of the atmospheric elements.
Exosphere (layers of the atmosphere) Accurate Answer:- above the
heterosphere (top of the atmosphere), atmospheric particles move in free
orbit, 300/600 miles into space without end, when particles in the region get
enough velocity they can escape (region of escape).
Solutions
Kite Accurate Answer:- Invented by the Chinese, first time man flew,
used for surveillance.
Lighter-than-air Accurate Answer:- a substance which is less dense
than air.
Gunpowder Accurate Answer:- invented by the Chinese, used to create
the first rockets.
Hot Air Balloon Accurate Answer:- an aircraft which uses heated
lighter-than-air gasses to produce lift.
Hydrogen Gas Accurate Answer:- discovered by Cavendish, lighter-
than-air, flammable, used in hot air balloons.
Helium Gas Accurate Answer:- lighter-than-air gas which replaced
hydrogen in hot air balloons.
Aerial Observations Accurate Answer:- used to see over physical
barriers, highly effective militarily.
Balloon Signal Service Accurate Answer:- short lived part of the Union
Army, used for observation.
Aeronaut Accurate Answer:- balloon pilot.
Dirigible Accurate Answer:- balloon which can be propelled and
steered.
Zeppelin Accurate Answer:- rigid dirigible.
Rocket definition Accurate Answer:- uses an explosion to achieve initial
lift, cannot sustain flight.
,Glider Accurate Answer:- aircraft which is lifted into the air and flies
with no internal power.
Lift Accurate Answer:- the force which opposed gravity, generated by
the aircraft's wings.
Drag Accurate Answer:- the force that opposes thrust, mechanical force
against motion.
Thrust Accurate Answer:- the force that opposes drag, in an aircraft
thrust comes from the engine.
Helicopter Accurate Answer:- an aircraft which uses a spinning rotor to
achieve lift.
Wind Tunnel Accurate Answer:- a chamber which simulates wind for
experimentation.
Airplane Accurate Answer:- a heavier than air craft which can sustain
flight and is controlled by a pilot.
Powered Flight Accurate Answer:- flight achieved from an onboard
power plant, usually an engine.
Airports Accurate Answer:- where aircraft operations are conducted.
Uncontrolled airports Accurate Answer:- airports with no control
tower.
Runways Accurate Answer:- where aircraft take off and land.
Runway designations Accurate Answer:- the first two numbers of the
compass heading in three digits.
Threshold Accurate Answer:- beginning of the runway.
Taxiways Accurate Answer:- where aircraft move from the ramp to
runway.
,Ramps Accurate Answer:- aircraft parking lots.
Hangars Accurate Answer:- aircraft garages, often where maintenance
occurs.
Control tower Accurate Answer:- controls airport traffic and provides
ATIS.
Automated Terminal Information System (ATIS) Accurate Answer:-
weather and airport information.
Fixed-Base Operation (FBO) Accurate Answer:- the offices which
provide services to the airport such as flight instruction, fuel, maintenance,
and sales.
Passenger terminal Accurate Answer:- where passengers wait in larger
airports to board their planes.
Flight Service Station (FSS) Accurate Answer:- provides weather
information and flight plans.
Encroachment Accurate Answer:- communities moving close to the
airport.
Noise abatement procedures Accurate Answer:- methods to avoid loud
noises.
Atmosphere Accurate Answer:- the region where people can live
without lift support.
Aerospace Accurate Answer:- a term used to refer to the atmosphere
and space.
Atmospheric elements Accurate Answer:- 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen,
1% other variable and permanent gases.
Four ways to classify atmospheric regions Accurate Answer:-
temperature, physicochemical, molecular, and dynamic and kinetic processes.
, Troposphere Accurate Answer:- where people live, up to 10 miles of
altitude on average does have variable height based on region, weather is
produced here, temperature decreases with an increase in altitude.
Tropopause contains the jet streams.
Stratosphere Accurate Answer:- temperature increases with an
increase in altitude, 10-30 miles.
Mesosphere Accurate Answer:- initially temperature increases with
altitude, then it decreases, 30-50 mi.
Thermosphere Accurate Answer:- 50 to 300 miles, temperature
increases again based on solar activity.
Ozonosphere Accurate Answer:- 10 to 30 miles, solar radiation causes
oxygen molecules to pick up a third atom (ozone).
Ionosphere (temperature distribution of atmosphere) Accurate Answer:-
25 to 250 miles, solar radiation causes a loss or gain of an electron, certain
radio waves are reflected.
Neutrosphere Accurate Answer:- below the ionosphere to the surface,
not as much ionization.
Chemosphere Accurate Answer:- vaguely defined, overlaps ionosphere
and ozonosphere, number of photochemical (radiant energy and chemical)
reactions occur.
Heterosphere Accurate Answer:- the region where due to gravity
different molecules are held closer or further from Earth based on their mass,
creates a separation of molecules of different kinds.
Homosphere Accurate Answer:- where there is a relatively
proportional distribution of the atmospheric elements.
Exosphere (layers of the atmosphere) Accurate Answer:- above the
heterosphere (top of the atmosphere), atmospheric particles move in free
orbit, 300/600 miles into space without end, when particles in the region get
enough velocity they can escape (region of escape).
